Michael

A mature and visually elegant period romance that remains one of the earliest and most compassionate overtly gay-themed films in movie history. Based upon Herman Bang's 1902 novel, Dreyer's Michael refashions the classical Greek myth of Jupiter and Ganymede into a love triangle between an aging artist, Zoret, his protagonist Michael, and Princess Zamikoff, an aristocratic femme fatale as entranced by Michael’s youthful beauty as Zoret is.

Novela

Herman Bang

Screenplay

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Director

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Screenplay

Thea von Harbou

Status

Released

Release date

26/09/1924

Original language

German